Jill over at Breaking the Spine started this and I believe that it's awesome" This blog post is to alert those that visit about "the" book that we cannot wait to get our hands on.

Stacey Jay has long been one of my favorite authors. So, you can imagine how crazy I got once I read the synopsis for her upcoming novel OF BEAST and BEAUTY. Then the cover was released and I am in total book lust over it. I cannot wait for this to reach my hand for I am eagerly waiting for it.

That is my WOW for this week, what is yours?

OF BEAST AND BEAUTYby Stacey JayComing 07/23/13ISBN-13: 978-0375991004Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young ReadersPages: 256Find it on Amazon, B&N, Goodreads

In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret. . . .

In
the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is
raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s
vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to
save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that
together, they could return balance to their worlds.

Isra wants
to help the city’s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for
possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her
prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan’s
enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything
she has been brought up to believe.

As secrets are revealed and
Isra’s sight returns, she will have to choose between duty to her people
and the beast she has come to love.

Hello! I am the Ravenous Reader and I love to read and find my happiness in devouring as many YA novels as I possibly can. When I am not reading then you can find me chatting up books with my blogging buddy and bookish friends to the point of distraction. I am also extremely fortunate to live in an area that has a plethora or YA events that I love chronicling on my Instagram account.